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West Ham will not be moving to make Joao Mario’s move permanent in the summer should they remain in the Premier League. The midfielder has been disappointing since arriving on a loan in January and ClaretandHugh understands there is no chance of the club meeting a transfer fee of around £26 million. His performances have […]

THE FA are reported as having met with West Ham’s former head of recruitment Tony Henry over his race row. Henry received his marching orders from the club after making discriminating remarks against Africans claiming they “can have a bad attitude.” According to The Sun he is likely to attend a racism awareness course as part […]

David Sullivan, David Gold and Karren Brady look certain to be back on their director box positions for the match against Southampton. The trio are determined to face up the threat of any abuse believing it would be a dereliction of their duties to make themselves invisible for the afternoon. There have been strong claims […]

Football is increasingly run by mediocre people infected by politics and commerce, yet fans still cling to it as a distraction from real life On 27 June 2016, four days after the EU referendum , England were beaten 2-1 by Iceland in the knockout stages of the European football championships. It was a remarkable display of collective paralysis and the corrosive consequences of fear. Nearly two years later, the country does not appear dissimilar: less than the sum of its …

Interviews with West Ham fans about their views of what led to last Saturday’s pitch invasions and protest against the board has been broadcast on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday. Interviews with Hammers fans included WHUSIA vice chairman Paul Turner, Sex Drugs and Carlton Cole site founder Dave Walker and retired newspaper journalist Brian Williams. The […]

West Ham has called an emergency meeting of the Supporters’ Advisory Board before the next game against Southampton. The club wrote to members of the advisory board this week saying “Following the events that marred last Saturday’s match with Burnley, we would like to invite you to an Emergency Supporter Advisory Board meeting to be […]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has rebuked Karren Brady for claiming that cuts in the London Stadium’s security budget were responsible for the crowd trouble that marred West Ham last Saturday according to the Guardian. West Ham’s vice-chairman wrote to the mayor of London after an emergency meeting between stakeholders on Monday and said David Sadler, […]

• Vice-chairman wrote to Sadiq Khan blaming the stadium owner • Monday meeting followed serious crowd trouble in loss to Burnley Sadiq Khan has rebuked Karren Brady for claiming that cuts in the London Stadium’s security budget were responsible for the crowd trouble that marred West Ham United’s defeat by Burnley last Saturday. West Ham’s vice-chairman wrote to the mayor of London after an emergency meeting between stakeholders on Monday and said David Sadler, the head of…

BBC journalist Simon Stone claims West Ham troubles at the London Stadium were organised using mobile phones and that 85% of the attempts to invade the pitch were repelled. Stone wrote on his Twitter account last night: “It is estimated stewards repelled 85% of the attempts to get on the pitch West Ham on Saturday. Trouble wasn’t […]

They say a picture paints a thousand words so it is unfortunate to see images of West Ham players sunning themselves on Miami beach in the tabloid laughing and rubbing sun cream into each other as they sun themselves. The timing is awful from a PR perspective after an awful week in the media in […]

• Club working with police after trouble during defeat by Burnley • West Ham will also ask courts to issue blanket banning orders West Ham have vowed to issue life bans to the fans who invaded the pitch during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat by Burnley. The Premier League match at the London Stadium was marred by four separate pitch invasions as well as protests against the club’s board as hundreds of supporters congregated…

West Ham season ticket holders have been urged to boycott the West Ham v Manchester City match on Sunday 29th April. In the latest range of protests on an online campaign on social suggests a half-empty stadium live on Sky TV would send out a powerful message. The statement from an unknown source which been […]

In the first of our look at where former West Ham United managers are now, we focus on English boss Glenn Roeder, who was in charge in East London between the years of 2001 and 2003. Was the Woodford-born manager popular amongst the Claret & Blue Army? What did he achieve during his time at the Boleyn Ground? And more importantly, where is he now? Glenn Roeder A young Roeder grew up …

“West Ham will appoint an experienced director of football at the end of the season in a bid to head off criticism from fans of their recruitment strategy” claims the well connected Ken Dyer in the London Evening Standard. Last month David Moyes said in the London Standard “We’ve put together some plans, we are going […]

Spurs have announced season-ticket prices on Monday for their new 62,000-seat stadium, which they hope to occupy in 2018-19 with the cheapest season ticket costing £795 and the most expensive £1,995 while the average costs £875. Kids will pay £397.50 rising to £562.50 for concessions. Last week West Ham announced it was freezing their season ticket prices […]